The Young Philadelphians Quotes & Sayings

Homer then has the bard - a blind man whose name is Demodocus, which means "popular with the people" - say something that drives far into the center of what Homer means and why Homer matters: "The gods did this and spun the destruction of people / For the sake of the singing of men hereafter." The song, this poem, this story, is the divine — Adam Nicolson

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. — John Zachary Young

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie. — Kristen Wiig

As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is. — Harry Lloyd

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system. — Herbert Schiller

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are. — Christina Baldwin

Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science. — Halton Arp

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved. — Scoot McNairy

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal. — Johnny Depp

One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist. — Vladimir Nabokov

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish. — Charles Grandison Finney

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests. — Deepak Chopra